Some of the Many Ways in Which We Can Incorporate Qualities that Will Allow us to Be all that We Can Be: Peaceful & Content

               ~The Seven Gifts of a Loving Universe~

Gifts that Allow us to Be Better Healers because we are at Peace and Content with Who we are and What we do:

1. The Gift of Patience.
Patience not only makes it possible for us to bear the anguish and trauma of life. Patience also gives us the opportunity, if we will, to persevere — to follow our dream and discover who we truly are.

2. The Gift of Humility.
Where would we be without humility? Humility opens the door to wisdom and intuition. It makes it possible for us to change, and to grow. If we realize we have believed a lie, for example, or our attitude to someone was wrong — we can change. Humility makes it possible to find meaning and wholeness.

3. The Gift of Courage.
Courage is the vital creative power that makes it possible for us not only to meet the challenges of our lives but to follow our dream and embrace the unique gift we came into the world to give.

4. The Gift of Compassion.
Compassion is one of the most precious gifts this universe has to give. Compassion not only sees the pain of the world, but paradoxically sees the incredible beauty and oneness back of creation.

5. The Gift of Happiness.
The world has done a good job of convincing us that happiness is outside us and requires struggle and searching to be known. But happiness was given us at birth. All we have to do is be still and remember our true inheritance – the authentic happiness that already exists at the core of our being.

6. The Gift of Freedom.
Nothing needs to change in your life or mine for us to be free. You can be free right now regardless of your circumstances and the truth is you are free right now as you surrender to the timeless presence of your own eternal Self.

7. The Gift of Love.
You are loved. The universe sees you, and admires you, and loves you, because you are part of Itself. The universe would not exist if you did not exist. Again, there has been a lot of brainwashing done over the centuries to convince us we are miserable sinners, alone and rejected in a barren, hostile world. But don’t you believe it. The universe is kinder, wiser, and infinitely more loving than our mind could possibly begin to imagine. The trouble is what our mind doesn't understand it tends to see as alien and separate from itself. We will never understand the universe, of course. But we can love it and respect it and be thankful for it. And in some moment when we are still — when our heart is open — we can feel its deep, unshakable love for us.

~ Christopher Foster, from the book: Aging into Bliss